'Next-generation 911' gear modernizes police

Patrol officers are being equipped with the kind of high-tech communications gear that puts them on the cutting edge

Chris Woodyard
USA TODAY

RoboCop would be proud. Maybe even amazed.

Like the main character of the then-futuristic 1987 movie about an all-seeing humanoid cop, patrol officers are being equipped with the kind of high-tech communications gear that puts them on the cutting edge.